I titled this entry, in the hope that it would inspire me to think of important things to convey to my dedicated readers. However, I'm still coming up empty.
1. It is already very cold in Yaroslavl. Like yesterday I wore two pairs of long underwear. And it's also this rainy cold where you can never achieve any sort of warm-ness. I heard that they turn on the heat in the city when they get 3 days in a row when the temperature doesn't get about 8 degrees.
2. Last Friday, I went to go coach (or try to coach, or stand there looking like a loon) a youth boy's hockey team. The coach described a hockey playing girl from America as "exotic." I think I more impeded the practice as I stood there looking like a loon and every once in a while saying such useful words as "молодец, давай, быстро..." Oh yeah, high quality coaching skills. Then after practice the boys wanted to know what place I (and my team) had recieved in the world championships. At least, I think that's what they were asking.
3. On this same excursion I was also told that all of the passerbys just assumed I was carrying the hockey stick for my son.
4. The search for a mainstream course may not be as hopeless as initially believed. Today I went with Megan to look at the politics and history schedules and found some classes which both fit in my schedule, have only зачёт, and have nice professors whom I can understand. Tomorrow I have to go to one of them to try it out, but we don't know the subject matter. It is in the "museum" department. So it will surely be quite interesting, or just very strange. Regardless, it will be better than the Chinese history class.
5. Oh also this weekend, Margarita gave me charcoal tablets when I complained to her that my stomach hurt. It was very strange. But I suppose they sort of worked. She was amazed that they didn't sell them in the U.S. because they are so useful.
6. Also I really enjoy how the computer is underlining every word I write because it is doing Russian spell check on them all.
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5 comments:
i'm glad you updated finally- i almost gave up checking- i felt silly looking at the same thing every day. The hockey team sounds amazing. are you going to continue in your exotic activity? or was this a one time thing?
I am jealous of the hockey game and your mainstream success. But not of the cold. Good luck coaching. I really have nothing interesting to say apparently.
They do have charcoal tablets in the US, but I think you only get them when you go to the hospital or something. I also am jealous of your mainstream success. I thought about going to a physics class today but got scared and didn't. That's not a good sign.
Hi Abs
I am glad to know the hockey coach thinks you are exotic! How old were the boys you were coaching? and I hope you told them you played for Team Montana or something like that! Keep us posted on mainstream class - and hey if it was easy everyone would be taking mainstream classes in Russia!
dale
Those boys probably spent their weekend telling everyone they know about the American girl who plays and is coaching their hockey team. You might start to worry if the other coach refers to you as erotic though.
What's a mainstream class? Did you ever manage to buy shampoo and soap? I'm on pins and needles. So keep writing. Oh, and the twins have started moving. Feels like going to Chinese history but in my belly. Butterflies.
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